It's just as weepy and draggy as it sounds. This depicts the
ups and downs of a gal breaking into pictures -- and if any little
girl wants to be a movie star afer she sees this, she has an awful
amount of courage. Patsy Ruth Miller is the girl who just must
be a success in pictures. Louise Dresser is her mother, and Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., is the boyfriend.

A powerful drama. It is a mother-love theme, like that of "The
Blind Goddess, in which Miss Louise Dresser again is given the
part of the self-sacrificing mother; she wanted to shield her
daughter, whom she loved dearly, but who was unaware that the
woman who shielded her was her mother. The scenes in which the
mother for the first time since babyhood meets her daughter, are
deeply pathetic; the mother's restraint stirs one's emotions to
the very depths. The scenes, however, in which the mother, in
order ot make her daughter act, tells her that she is her mother,
are the most powerful ones; it will be hard for one to suppress
one's emotions in those scenes. The courtroom scenes where the
mother refuses to reveal to the court the name of the "other
woman" who was present in the apartment of the murdered man,
preferring to go to the electric chair rather than tell that the
other woman was her daughter, also are pathetic. The plot has
been founded on the story by Raymond Schrock and Edward Clark;
it has been directed intelligently by Lloyd Bacon. Patsy Ruth
Miller does good work as the heroine, but it is Louise Dresser,
as the mother, who does the best work. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
does good work but his looks do not help the picture at all.

The mother had left her husband and her baby daughter because
she wanted a career to which her husband was opposed; she went
to Hollywood and became an actress. Years later her daughter wins
a popularity contest and goes to Hollywood. But the way to a job
was a hard one. She meets the young hero, also a contest winner,
who, too, had hard luck at finding a job. The hero injures himself
in an effort to win fifty dollars by which he could bail out the
heroine who was arrested during a raid on a cafe at which she
was innocently present. She comes out of jail, and, in order to
help save the life of the young hero, she goes to an actor who
had a "sheik" reputation willing to "sacrifice"
herself. But the sheik turns out to be a kind-hearted man. With
his influence, she is given an opportnity to act in a leading
role. Her mother, whom she did not know, is assigned to the mother's
part. But the heroine could not act until the mother, having recognized
her daughter, reveals her identity to her. The heroine then acted
naturally to the great satisfction of the director. After the
scene wsas over, the mother tells the daughter that her story
was part of her scheme to make her act. The heroine is invited
to the apartment of a vulture who preyed upon innocent victims
under the pretense of conducting a school for acting. There he
attempts to assault her. The mother, who through an overheard
conversation knew that her daughter was in danger, goes to the
apartment just in the nick of time. She shoots and kills the man
and urges the heroine to go. She is arrested. But at the trial
she refuse to divulge the name of the other woman preent at the
murder scene until a clever ruse by the attorney for the defense
makes her confess. She is acquitted. The heroine falls on her
mother's neck. Hero and heroine marry.